Althouse: At the Second Day Cafe...

January 2, 2019

At the Second Day Cafe...

... how’s the new year going for you?

67 comments:

Nichevo said...: Haven't made any typos yet.; 1/2/19, 8:07 PM
Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of New York said...: I just climbed out of my fallout shelter that I crawled into the night before Net Neutrality was rescinded. Did I miss the zombie apocalypse?; 1/2/19, 8:09 PM
Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of New York said...: Maybe Net Neutrality wouldn’t have bene so bad if it lead then to “Search Engine” neutrality and “Social Media Neutrality."; 1/2/19, 8:10 PM
Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of New York said...: Oops, there’s a typo! Need a new prescription, I think.; 1/2/19, 8:10 PM
gilbar said...: i haven't left the house; Since late last year!; 1/2/19, 8:11 PM
YoungHegelian said...: What a year 2019 has turned out to be!

Day two & I wake up to find that Kanye West is a better Republican than Mitt Romney!; 1/2/19, 8:14 PM
Bill, Republic of Texas said...: Any Althousians ever live in Alaska? I've got a potential job opportunity in Alaska but it would be a five year commitment. The pay is very tempting.

I've lived and worked in Ukraine and all over the US. I'm kinda curious about life in Alaska.

But now I'm about 1/2 retired but the prospect of a new adventure appeals to me too. The wife is ok either way.

Thoughts?; 1/2/19, 8:19 PM
Original Mike said...: Ultima Thule turns out to be a cool contact binary!; 1/2/19, 8:20 PM
walter said...: Bill,
You could get a "snow machine"...maybe two!; 1/2/19, 8:23 PM
America’s Politico said...: Get ready for the greatest WH ticket:

Elizabeth Warren as POTUS &
Amy Klobuchar as VPOTUS,

TRump is about to start crying.

Cheers,; 1/2/19, 8:29 PM
I Callahan said...: Warren Klobuchar, huh? Ok...

Who’s this new wiggler?; 1/2/19, 8:35 PM
YoungHegelian said...: @Rajkumar,

Elizabeth Warren as POTUS

Nope. Sorry. After her insane "Kitchen N' Beer Summit", it's gonna take a lot of damage control to right that ship.

The New Year has not been kind to Warren or Romney**

** What imbecile on Romney's managerial staff okayed that NYT opinion piece? I can't believe there weren't staffers who didn't didn't resign in protest over that incredible piece of imbecility! Can anyone give me an example of an anti-Trump Republican who's thriving now?; 1/2/19, 8:39 PM
Drago said...: For those LLR fanboyz keeping track, today was the 637th time in the last 3 years that LLR Chuck's "True Conservative" hero, Max Boot, who just so happens to align utterly and completely with the far left
on every single policy issue, announced that he was officially leaving the republican party.

Max Boot, who attacks republicans and their voters every single day, at least is still able to legitimately claim to like republicans more than LLR Chuck.

So Max has that going for him, which is nice.; 1/2/19, 8:40 PM
Bill, Republic of Texas said...: Yeah, we'd have to get two snowmobiles. My wife is from the north and she would love to have real winter again.

I'm just afraid we have too romantic view of Alaska. Winter from November to March. Yikes!; 1/2/19, 8:42 PM
Fritz said...: Any Althousians ever live in Alaska? I've got a potential job opportunity in Alaska but it would be a five year commitment. The pay is very tempting.

I've lived and worked in Ukraine and all over the US. I'm kinda curious about life in Alaska.

But now I'm about 1/2 retired but the prospect of a new adventure appeals to me too. The wife is ok either way.

It’s a big state. The interior is brutally cold in winter. So is the north. The coast is more like the rest of the Pacific Northwest.; 1/2/19, 8:42 PM
Drago said...: YH: "Can anyone give me an example of an anti-Trump Republican who's thriving now?"

There's alot of Soros/Other Lefty Billionaire/FusionGPS/Dem cash keeping many of LLR Chuck's "TruCon" heroes flush with cash as they attack conservatives and their policies.; 1/2/19, 8:43 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: This made my day. On Louis CK

Louis C.K. has lost everything. That seems fair to me. And now he’s trying to start all over again, which also seems fair to me. Nobody owes him movie roles or producer credits or any of the other stuff he lost in the space of a day. But if he can still find comedy clubs that want to book him, and people still want to go see him, how is that hurting you?

Taking shots at Louis C.K. in 2019 is punching down. It makes you the bully. If that’s who you are, go right ahead. And then project your own bullying behavior onto him. Feels good, doesn’t it? Feels righteous. You’re a good person. Sure.

Hooray for you. Wonderful, marvelous you.

Insty-Treacher; 1/2/19, 8:44 PM
narciso said...: Remember all the stealth edits:

https://theintercept.com/2019/01/02/five-weeks-after-the-guardians-viral-blockbuster-assangemanafort-scoop-no-evidence-has-emerged-just-stonewalling/; 1/2/19, 8:45 PM
Humperdink said...: " Can anyone give me an example of an anti-Trump Republican who's thriving now?"

McCain.; 1/2/19, 8:47 PM
Michael said...: Bill, Republic of Texas
Never lived there but was up there a bit on business and thus had experience with the locals from a non-tourist point of view. Very nice people, Texas-like in their independence and good will. Normals for the most part. The winters weigh on them but they escape to Hawaii just as did Captain Cook. Look at the number of fights from Anchorage to Honolulu for an idea of that. The summers they let loose and fish until midnight.; 1/2/19, 8:50 PM
Anonymous said...: I am retired. I played golf today. It was a beautiful winter day. Clear skies and temperature in the low 50s F. What more can you ask for?; 1/2/19, 8:53 PM
Michael said...: Bill, Republic of Texas

PS. I was once on the phone in the Sheraton downtown Anchorage, looking out the window as I talked to a guy in LA. Saw an elk walking down the street and an Indian coming out of a bar and saw them meet face to face with the Indian retreating into the bar. I told the guy in LA what I had seen. He said he had been up there all the time when he financed the Captain Cook Hotel and that it was an Indian dressed up as an Elk. He said they did it all the time. Happily I had taken a picture from the window and it now hangs on the wall of an LA investment banker along with my cover letter.

So there is that about Alaska; 1/2/19, 8:55 PM
Humperdink said...: I am semi-retired and playing pickleball 3 days a week, sometimes 4-5 times a week. I am addicted to this sport.; 1/2/19, 8:56 PM
Andrew said...: I voted for Romney reluctantly, because I wanted the Obama presidency to end. But what a lousy candidate. He was like the worst stereotype of the richy-rich Republican, somehow merged with a robot. Remember how he said he was "severely conservative"?

The funniest meme from that election was the "dogs against Romney" movement. Credit where it's due.

I live in Ohio, and it was clear to me that Romney was going to lose early on. The Dems launched ads regarding Bain Capital, and they were devastating. Romney was made to embody the worst aspects of predatory capitalism (including outsourcing jobs). Romney's campaign never tried to answer those ads.

What's very strange, is that those ads, in a different style, could have come from the Trump campaign. It's amazing to me that so many Republicans, including Romney, still don't get it. Trump will make mincemeat of Romney if he keeps playing the same game.; 1/2/19, 8:57 PM
FullMoon said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 1/2/19, 9:01 PM
Bill, Republic of Texas said...: Great stuff guys. There is a mystic about Alaska that attracts me. I love St Petersburg RU in the summer. There is something magical sitting on your balcony and reading a book at 3AM.

Oh and housing is so expensive.; 1/2/19, 9:07 PM
Sebastian said...: "how’s the new year going for you"

Great, really great.

But Althouse, we still need a separate Romney post. Commenters gotta vent.

Especially me, who declared Mitt an upstanding man not too long ago.; 1/2/19, 9:12 PM
Big Mike said...: I reconnected with a very old friend. Felt good to do that.; 1/2/19, 9:17 PM
WK said...: Super Dave Osborne passed away.; 1/2/19, 9:21 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Grumpy cat; 1/2/19, 9:26 PM
YoungHegelian said...: @DickinBimbos,

Grumpy Cat

I admit it. I laughed.; 1/2/19, 9:28 PM
William said...: Most of them blend together, but I remember New Years 2000. I remember feeling old on that occasion, and, holy shit, that was nineteen years ago. I'm super old now.....The Captain of Captain and Tenille has died. I only had a subliminal awareness of his existence, but he had a couple of catchy songs. I never switched the station when those songs came on. They were pleasant enough to listen to. Now he's gone. He was about my age.; 1/2/19, 9:30 PM
D. said...: Are Mormons a "Deep State Operation"?; 1/2/19, 9:31 PM
chuck said...: > Romney was made to embody the worst aspects of predatory capitalism

Kennedy ran the same playbook against him in the 1994 senatorial campaign and I expected a repeat. When it comes to politics, even a turnip would have more talent than Romney.; 1/2/19, 9:36 PM
traditionalguy said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 1/2/19, 9:44 PM
Heartless Aztec said...: Still vertical and collecting free money. Good so far.; 1/2/19, 9:45 PM
traditionalguy said...: As for Mormons, keep in mind they left the United States they hated and occupied a valley in Mexican territory so they could rule a separate theocracy cult under a Prophet and have their own money and Army. And Mitt is an anointed Mormon with a status that is way greater than a mere American like Trump.; 1/2/19, 9:45 PM
narciso said...: Same thing happened with jeb in 94 and then in 2016, the first time by Lawton chiles.; 1/2/19, 9:57 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: I was in New Orleans in Oct 2012 - on the night Romney cleaned Obama's clock in that first debate. I was so thrilled! I left that French Quarter bar, and called a close friend to proclaim with unabated giddiness that Mitt had developed the political spine to thump Obama!

I jumped for joy down Bourbon St, and drank a Sazerac in blissful euphoria.

Boy, was I wrong. What a stiff. He totally folded during the Candy Crowley CNN debate. He just gave it away.

Way over Mitt. He needs to just.shut.up.; 1/2/19, 10:02 PM
FWBuff said...: Althouse, as attuned as you are to the subtexts of photos, have you seen the photo of Trump accompanying Paul Krugman’s column today at the NYT online? He’s framed beneath a light fixture that makes him look as though he has horns. I guess it’s the antichrist version to the Obama picture in front of the presidential seal that made Obama look as though he had a halo.

Here’s the url: https://nyti.ms/2H2rvYL; 1/2/19, 10:33 PM
stephen cooper said...: Bay Area Guy -

wow.

I never looked at that rich little twerp and thought he was a winner.

Once or twice I thought maybe he will be man enough to try not to lose.

But I was wrong.

I mean, the little guy was Mormon Royalty and like the lowest of the low he flattered the Massachusetts people and said he would be right there with them in support of abortion rights and government cash for abortion doctors.
No pity and no concern for the victims of that policy.

He was an adult male, not some teenager, and he was Mormon Royalty, remember that.

The man is a disgrace to his religion.
Of course his first act as a senator was going to be abject ingratitude and disloyalty.

That being said, in my "faith tradition", the current "leader" is a lot more like King Herod than he is like the saint he named himself after in his pride of life.

This world is not anywhere near as good as it should be. Go home, Mitt, be the grandpa you were meant to be, in the circle of your family, and leave the good people of America alone!

And, in case poor Bergoglio is reading this: Repent, Pope Herod! Have some pity on your fellow Catholics and go back to Argentina and spend the rest of your life as a kindly old priest!

Well, nobody listens to me. So there's that.; 1/2/19, 10:35 PM
readering said...: True; 1/2/19, 10:41 PM
stephen cooper said...: readering - I saw what you did there, God bless you for making me laugh!; 1/2/19, 10:53 PM
Ray - SoCal said...: Great comment!

I’m surprised at no post by Althouse on Romney. Now even his niece dissed him...

> YoungHegelian said...
>What a year 2019 has turned out to be!
>
>Day two & I wake up to find that Kanye West is a better Republican than Mitt Romney!; 1/2/19, 11:02 PM
Chuck said...: Can anyone give me an example of a Trump partner/associate who is thriving now?

No fair picking “Putin” as your answer.; 1/2/19, 11:04 PM
walter said...: Given constant attacks "because Truuuuump", is that a fair question Chuck?; 1/2/19, 11:23 PM
Crazy World said...: Chuck - his wife is doing fabulous.
Romney is a fool.; 1/2/19, 11:24 PM
eddie willers said...: Day two & I wake up to find that Kanye West is a better Republican than Mitt Romney!

Huzzah!; 1/2/19, 11:36 PM
FullMoon said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 1/2/19, 11:41 PM
wildswan said...: I don't even feel apprehensive about what the new Congress will do. I know. They'll lie, they'll posture. Phony revelations that no one believes. The NYT will be more like CNN everyday and CNN will be like someone selling a cancer cure on late night TV. The House'll say they have to impeach. The Senate won't do it. And so, nothing. And so, in the end the media will realize that they've impeached their own credibility beyond repair, that that is what they have been doing; and in the end the Dems will turn from their own words in disgust like indulged five-year olds who've been eating cotton candy, staying up late and riding the roller coaster at the county fair. The Year of Congress Assembling Pointlessly.; 1/2/19, 11:41 PM
Big Mike said...: I watched the show about James Watson on PBS. I used to think that Watson stole Rosalind Franklin’s research, but it turned out that she had presented her findings in a lecture before Wilkins showed Photo 51 to Watson, and once you’ve presented your findings in an open forum they belong to the scientific community and not just to you. After doing key work with X-ray crystallography that played a critical role in helping Watson and Crick elucidate the structure of DNA, she went on to do fantastic research into viruses that was also Nobel-worthy. She never got one, though, because she died of ovarian cancer at just 37, and the Nobel committee does not make posthumous awards.; 1/2/19, 11:51 PM
narciso said...: Before this, Putin didnt have serious sanctions which cost him billions of dollars this crack mercenaries were not wiped out, and the Ukraine didn't have hi tech missiles so no hes not better off.; 1/3/19, 12:17 AM
themightypuck said...: More editorial AA. I come here for you.; 1/3/19, 12:32 AM
Drago said...: Unexpectedly, at the very moment that the entire far left/dems/LLR's/MSM/The Cuckly Standard Hillary-paid dossier lies are collapsing faster than LLR Chuck's faux-conservative online persona, that same LLR Chuck, a self-described Smear artist, continues to advance the Soros-funded/FusionGPS smears (via The Weekly Standard) false narrative about Trump and Putin.

I. Did. Not. See. That. Coming.

Of course, I should have seen that coming as I did listen in to some of the lefty fever swamp talking heads and LLR Chuck is never far behind them.

And this on top of Chuck's reflexive, passionate defense yesterday of his "magnificent" obama re: military service.

Its going to be fun watching Chuck over the coming months as he filters thru all the lefty narrative needs to identify the ones he wants to push......from a "true conservative" perspective.....naturally...
(Wink wink).....

LOL; 1/3/19, 12:38 AM
narciso said...: He just doesn't try very hard with these shake and bake narratives, it's sad really. Not nearly as given rashida tlaib beer and car keys (yes I know she doesn't drink); 1/3/19, 12:44 AM
Drago said...: Bay Area Guy: "Boy, was I wrong. What a stiff. He totally folded during the Candy Crowley CNN debate. He just gave it away."

That was the very first time a major party candidate surrendered unconditionally to Candy Crowley, CNN and Barack Obama simultaneously in live TV in front of a global audience.

LLR Chuck was no doubt beaming with satisfaction. A simultaneous republican surrender to the MSM and LLR Chuck's "magnificent" obama.

Eat your heart out Kasich!!; 1/3/19, 12:53 AM
narciso said...: Well in this Pope's defense. Growing up in Argentina in the 50 and 60, probably made many many seminarians very left wing (George neumayr of the spectator has the details) by the 70s the political climate was even more so.; 1/3/19, 12:55 AM
Michael McNeil said...: Get ready for the greatest WH ticket:
Elizabeth Warren as POTUS &
Amy Klobuchar as VPOTUS,
TRump is about to start crying.

Oh, I expect that Trump thinks that Warren and Klobuchar would be great fun to campaign against. I can imagine a broad Trumpian grin of anticipation….; 1/3/19, 4:52 AM
MadisonMan said...: I've got a potential job opportunity in Alaska but it would be a five year commitment.

Make sure you have time off in the winter to escape to sunny locations. There are lots of Alaska-Hawaii flights. Oh -- and a Lamp to ward off SAD.

You don't say where you'll be. Juneau is a place to feel trapped in -- you can't drive out of there -- but some people like the green of it. Fairbanks has the University, but it can get super cold, but that might be fun for a bit.; 1/3/19, 5:45 AM
Narayanan said...: An interesting POV on Trump - Mattis pas-de-deux?
https://pjmedia.com/trending/why-did-mattis-force-trump-to-fire-him/
Should / Did Trump garner greater respect for acting as CiC to assert chair of command?; 1/3/19, 6:11 AM
Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of New York said...: I voted for Romney, seeing what Obama did to the FBI, CIA, NSA, etc, I wish he had won, but I wouldn’t vote for him ever now. If it was between him and Hillary, I would just stay home.; 1/3/19, 7:14 AM
Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of New York said...: At least the Dems have one R vote for removal though, evidence sight unseen! Such a stand up guy!; 1/3/19, 7:15 AM
Rosa Marie Yoder said...: It was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

But there's still today. And the next...; 1/3/19, 7:27 AM
Mary H said...: This morning's PJ Media blog has a wonderful story on the Southern Poverty Law Center's campaign to smear a lawyer working for the City of Baltimore. The lawyer, who was fired after being branded a Neo-Nazi by SPLC, has filed a $6.5 million lawsuit, claiming the SPLC received and paid for stolen documents in violation of confidentiality agreements to "get" their target. The lawyer has done pro-bono work for African-Americans, but his career is destroyed due to racism charges.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/lawsuit-claims-splc-abetted-theft-spread-lies-to-destroy-lawyer-for-thought-crime/; 1/3/19, 7:51 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Romney - the new Flake.; 1/3/19, 8:46 AM
Rosa Marie Yoder said...: A plea from Facebook:

My 5th grade class is looking for someone to send us a postcard from the following states:

Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington DC, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

Loogootee Middle School
c/o Sarah Knepp
201 Brooks Ave
Loogootee, IN 47553

I've got Michigan covered.; 1/3/19, 9:26 AM
stephen cooper said...: narciso - that is a good point

for example the basic take on James Joyce is "he was contemptuous of the church of his day", and did not believe in God ,

not exactly. He, like me, (who subscribed to the Wanderer in the 1980s and knew about all the bad things the mediocre hierarchy of the day was capable of , with no obvious remorse, at least back then ) was outraged at the bad things bad people did with the power they were given in a society where religious power was a much more powerful thing than it is now (Christian religion anyway, the SWPL religion is near its height), and while his later work on Finnegans Wake displays a deep appreciation of Pauline theology, not to mention a Hopkins-like delight in this world, he could never say, yes, Credo in Unam Sanctam Ecclesiam --- because of his sense of justice, and his despair at the mediocre priests and nuns of his day, and for that he can be forgiven.

Poor Bergoglio's flattery of abortionists is worse than Joyce's refusal to write pious and wonderful novels, like the novels of Bernanos and Chesterton at their best. You are a smart guy, you don't need me to explain why.; 1/3/19, 7:29 PM